As Moscow’s defense ministry claimed to have finally captured the salt mining town of Soledar, the Kremlin faced an escalation in its conflict with Wagner boss Yevgeny Prigozhin over who deserves credit.
While Ukraine has denied claims that the town has even fallen, the capture of Soledar would representfirst significant battlefield victory after six months of humiliating pushbacks and failures. The town has been targeted by Russian troops in a bid to cut off supply routes to the nearby city of Bakhmut, the defense ministry said.
The statement, which went on to claim that 700 Ukrainians had been “eliminated” in the last three days, did not mention Wagner fighters at all.claimed his miscreant mercenaries had taken “control of all the territory of Soledar,” only for his assertion to be denied by Ukrainian authorities—and Russia’s defense ministry.
“I read with surprise the summary of the Ministry of Defense,” the quote attributed to Andrey Troshev, head of the League for the Protection of the Interests of Veterans of Local Wars and Military Conflicts said. “There was not a single paratrooper on Soledar, the paratroopers themselves confirm this. Soledar was taken solely by the efforts of the fighters of the Wagner PMC. And there is no need to offend the fighters by humiliating their merit. You are demotivating them.
“This is not true,” Serhiy Cherevaty, spokesperson for the Eastern Group of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, toldof Russia’s claims on Friday. “The fighting is going on in the city. I cannot tell the details.”
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